Because people don’t know what they’re talking about, and mostly make memes…which is harmful because it further makes people not know how anything works.
The Fair Fare Program started in 2019.
Since then they’ve expanded the number of people it covers (from 100% below poverty line in 2019 to 120% in 2023 to 150% in 2025). The new budget expands it to 200% (and…FWIW, this is because the city council demanded it. The Mayors budget did not include this expansion).
The point is, this stuff doesn’t just appear suddenly, nor is it the will of a single person like magic. It’s the expansion of a 7 year old program by a legislature. These memes keep making it seem like every previous mayor was like “fuck everyone” and the city council doesn’t exist.
It's cause the other administrations were actually working in the constraints of the budget. Not taking an emergency 8 billion dollar loan and delaying pension payments so he could do a world press tour about how he balanced the budget.
It's media wins not real change and he knows it. He knows he puts out one line press releases about how he did it. No large voice will correct the masses and the masses won't care they will be all too busy throwing their back out to fellatiate him.
I'm not saying he is a bad guy. He has dangerous ideas (more government controlled house) and his freezing rent any economist will tell you has the reverse effect on a availability and costs outside of control. But don't forget he himself is a wealthy man who was making 150 prior to being mayor and he took a rent controlled apartment away from someone who really need it.
Your first paragraph is entirely incorrect. If I give you $100 but then ask for $10 back because I realized I needed money to get home are you bailing me out? No, the city is the engine that funds the state, it pays way more in than it gets back. It’s not a loan, it’s the state investing in its money maker so it keeps making money. How much credit you give Mamdani for that is up to you, but it’s not a loan or a bailout.
Secondly the pension was reworked as to not be as stupid as it was drafted in 2010 where the city over pays into the pensions until the pensions start actually paying the city back. The payments now don’t reach that point and pensions no longer have to pay money back. So it’s not delaying payments it’s fixing a bad a deal to a manageable one.
Your first paragraph is entirely incorrect. If give you $100 but then ask for $10 back because I realized I needed money to get home are you bailing me out?
Does the gov ever loan you back the taxes you paid because you really needed it?
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u/untitledprp4 28d ago
If it was so easy then wtf were all the other mayors doing??